Erm… where’s that city bypass?
December 20, 2007
Today we went to Glasgow to choose our puppy Labrador. Quite a journey, with well over 450 miles there and back. All went reasonably well until we hit the Glasgow proximity. We had to be in a sub-urb of Glasgow, south of the city while we were coming down from the north.
So by now we were desperately looking for a city bypass and my guess is that Glasgow doesn’t have one (if it has, it’s very well hidden 
). Nor are there any signs that help out passing-through traffic, like the ones you find around Edinburgh. So eventually we did get lost and wandered about for an hour or so.
Unfortunately my PDA with TomTom wasn’t charged (yep, not too well prepped, I agree) so we had to rely on the Google maps print out which was pretty lousy. Don’t trust them. If we’d sticked to the Google route we’d still be driving in circles somewhere in Glasgow. So we decided to backtrack and use the directions sent by the breeder. Those got us right to his front door, at about 13:30 in the afternoon.
As we were the first to buy a male, black puppy from him we got first choice out of three sturdy looking fellows in a litter of 8 pups. They were all lovely pups but our “Jingles” stole our heart immediately. Take a look here at his picture where he’s engaged in some heavy duty action….
At about 14:30 we decided to head back to Skye. The journey back went a lot smoother. By 19:45 we were back at Skinidin.
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